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...context and depth. For the handful of classic works that deserve to be read in their entirety, isolating key passages can collapse the dimensionality of argument that make them worth reading in the first place. Similarly (and duly noted) the arrival of the personal computer in the lecture hall has challenged the college classroom’s traditional role as a special type of community. It is exceedingly difficult to simultaneously transcribe with precision while fully engaging with a complex and discursive argument. While boredom and distraction are certainly not unique to the 21st century, the laptop has no historical...
Sitting in the Adams House dining hall, I was two days away from handing in my thesis, and the screen of my phone lit up. Just as I planned, and what good timing. A 212 area code. Even though the past year has bruised New York City, the number rang with promise. A person in a New York office building was calling me. The digits ended in a round number. Probably a very big office building. An important person who worked in a big Manhattan office building wanted to talk. This person could see great stretches of earth...
...More often than not, I’ve been frustrated with Harvard and, to be honest, there have been occasions when I’ve questioned my decision to come here. Harvard’s administrative structure is notoriously non-intuitive, and the doors to University Hall and the Holyoke Center seem to be revolving constantly as deans come and go. I’ve felt backed into corners by bureaucratic academic departments, apathetic professors, fierce competition for limited opportunities—and occasionally all three at the same time...
...demonstrated the campus’s genuine commitment to greener living.In general, incorporation of student input led to positive results. HUDS in particular, went out of its way to solicit student feedback on many changes that it implemented this year. The modified reinstatement of calorie cards in the dining halls and the creation of a comprehensive website and Harvard dining blog demonstrated HUDS’s admirable responsiveness to student opinion. The Office of Career Services addressed criticisms that it focused too narrowly on the financial and consulting sectors by launching a new initiative to highlight more diverse career options...
...Council, since the University’s first priority must remain the education and research it can generate, these cuts were unfortunate, but necessary, evils. More troublingly, this crisis revealed a general lack of transparency in University finances. This problem was somewhat mitigated by the “town hall meetings” hosted by FAS Dean Michael Smith, but these clarification sessions were not sufficient. Harvard needs to be more open about its financial situation so that its plans can be critically evaluated. Although knowing that student life, staff job security, and the possibility of and J-Term were...